Apparatus for drawing corks from bottles



(No Model.)

J. BLOESER.

APPARATUS FOR DRAWING GURKS FROM BOTTLES.

No. 337,921. Patented Mar. 16, 1886.

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JOHN BLOESER OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

CPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,921, dated March 16, 1886.

Application filed August 1,1855. Serial X0. 173,250. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN BLOESER, a. citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the county of St. Louis and State of Missouri,haveiu vented certain new and useful improvements in Apparatus for Drawing Corks from Bottles; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a. part of this specification.

This invention relates to corkscrews and apparatus for drawing corks from bottles; and it consists in certain improvements in such apparatus, as hereinafter described and claimed, the object being to provide a device by which corks may be drawn from bottles easily and rapidly, and accidents resulting from breaking of bottles avoided.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a front elevation of an apparatus for drawing corks having my improvements. Fig. 2 is a. vertical transverse section of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail view in plan and section of thc bottleyoke; and Fig. 4 illustrates a modification of my improved apparatus.

A designates the horizontal top piece ofa stand having the vertical side pieces, B. On the top A is secured a standard, 0, having a horizontal part, a, in which is a nut or a threaded aperture, through which passes a screw, b, the upper end of which is provided with a hand-wheel for rapidly turning the screw. At its lower end the said screw is provided with a disk or plate, 0, which limits its downward movement, as hereinafter stated. Fixed in the lower end of the screw 12 is a corkscrew, f, which projects downward from the center of plate 0. A small aperture, 6, in the top A admits the corkscrew during operation.

D indicates a yoke, in the form of a bar, extending from side to side and placed below the top part, A. At each end of said yoke is a fixed pin or projection which extends into a vertical groove, 9, one of the latter being in each of the vertical side pieces, B, and the yoke being guided by these means in its movement up and down. At its center the yoke has an aperture, h, of suitable size to receive the neck of a bottle, and about said aperture is placed a packing, i, of leather, rubber, or other suitable material, so that the part of the yoke which comes in contact with the bottle shall not be hard and liable to break it.

E indicates a pedal, one end of which is coupled to the floor or base of the stand, the upper end being connected by rods with the yoke D, as shown, so that the yoke may be readily brought downward-a short distance by a movement of the pedal. The upper end of the pedal is supported by the springs m, so that it is sufficiently elevated, and the yoke is always held at the proper elevation.

Instead of placing the springs under the pedal, as shown, they may be placed in suitable positions near the top of the stand to support the bottle-yoke and raise it after being depressed.

In removing corks from bottles the operator takes a bottle in one hand and passes the neck of the bottle up through the aperture in the the yoke. \Vith the other hand he turns the wheel, and the screw, descending, drives the corkscrew down through the aperture e into the cork in the bottle. He then with his foot presses down the pedal,which draws the yoke downward, and with it the bottle, leaving the cork on the corkscrew, and then a reverse movement of screw I), by means of the handwheel, raises the corkscrew, giving it a like reverse movement, and as the cork cannot pass through the aperture 6 it is caught by the top-piece yoke D, the corkscrew turning out of the cork and letting it fall.

The whole operation is quite rapid, requiriug but little exertion of strength, and the device may be effectively used by either males or females without danger of wounding the hands or other limbs by the bursting or breaking of bottles.

I am aware that, broadly, a movable yoke operated by a hand-lever for drawing away a bottle from a fixed corkscrew is old, being shown in British Patent No. 3,212, of 1878; but the yoke in that patent is carried on the end of a pivoted lever, so that the yoke in its movement describes the arc of a circle. In my arrangement the bottle-carrying yoke is drawn directly away from a fixed corkscrew vIO in line with the longitudinal centers of the I ward the corkscrew-support, an opening in 25 corkscrew and bottle. There is therefore no lateral or torsional strain which would bind or tend to bind the cork within the neck of the bottle, but the cork is drawn from the neck of the bottle in a straight line. In my arrangement I also operate the yoke by a pedal instead of a hand-lever.

I am also aware of the patent of Redlich, No. 303,400 of August 12, 1884, and do not claim any subject-matter therein shown.

Having described my invention, I claim 1. In an apparatus for drawing corks from bottles, the combination, substantially as set forth, of the frame, the movable yoke provided with an opening for the reception of the neck of the bottle, the corkscrew, and a support therefor, a pedal, and connections between the pedal and yoke, whereby the yoke may be operated to draw the bottle away from the fixed corkscrew and extract the cork.

2. The combination of the frame, a corkscrew-support therein, a yoke which may be moved bodily in a straight line from and tosaid yoke for the reception of the bottle arranged in proper relation to the corkscrewsupport, mechanism for operating the yoke to extract the cork, as described, and a corkscrew fixed in the corkscrew-support in proper line with the opening in the yoke.

3. The combination of the frame, an aperture therein through which the corkscrew loosely passes, a fixed corkscrew-support arranged above said aperture and having a screw-threaded socket therein, the ,screwthreaded shank of the corkscrew which works in said socket, a bottle-yoke which is moved bodily away from the corkscrew-support, and mechanism, substantially such as' described, for moving the yoke, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN BLOESVER. 

